Your encounter with a "restaurant to leave for the future" begins on July 7, 2026.
Approximately 50 restaurants and 50 chefs from across the country will gather in Karuizawa to create a unique three-day restaurant experience in diverse spaces such as villas, restaurants, galleries, and wineries.
KEY FIGURES
Instead of visiting restaurants, you will encounter "restaurants to leave for the future" while exploring the town of Karuizawa.
This is the new culinary journey that the NoName Festival aims to provide.
Tickets will go on sale starting July 7, 2026 (Tue).
Please come and discover your "restaurant to leave for the future" in Karuizawa.
Latest information on participating chefs, restaurants, and more will be sequentially released on the official website and official Instagram.
There are "restaurants to leave for the future."
Restaurants are not just places to serve food.
They are places where ingredients are grown by producers, techniques are passed down by artisans, and chefs have built their lives.
And for customers, they are also places where memories are made, of time spent with loved ones and moments that marked milestones in life.
The night you celebrated a birthday. The proposal that changed your life. The dinner table shared by three generations of a family. A restaurant you wanted to return to.
Restaurants hold individual stories that cannot be told by food alone.
The day to celebrate a birthday.
Again next year, in this place.
The day life changed.
A night never to be forgotten.
The day family gathers.
The same scenery, into the future.
An unforgettable day.
A place you want to return to.
However, it is by no means a given that these places will remain for the future.
The environment surrounding the food and beverage industry is becoming increasingly challenging year by year, with rising ingredient prices, soaring energy costs, labor shortages, and a lack of successors.
The disappearance of a single restaurant is not just the loss of one place to enjoy food.
It also means the loss of local food culture, the severance of connections with producers, and the failure to pass on the skills of artisans.
And above all, it means the inability to pass on the countless memories born in that place to the future.
We want to preserve not only the food, but also the space, the people, the culture, and the time itself for the future.
Restaurants to leave for the future lie ahead.
Future restaurants to leave for the future exist.
The entire town of Karuizawa becomes a restaurant for three days only.
The entire town of Karuizawa becomes a restaurant for three days only. The NoName Festival is not an event held at a single venue. Exploring the town itself becomes a culinary experience.
Embark on your own culinary journey while exploring the town of Karuizawa.
In villas surrounded by forests, savor dishes born from that unique space.
In historic restaurants, chefs from Karuizawa and across the country will create dishes exclusive to these three days.
In galleries, encounter not only food, but also tableware, crafts, and their stories.
At wineries, experience a marriage of wine and food that tastes of the land, while feeling the nature of Karuizawa.
Even the same dish can offer a different time, scenery, and emotion depending on the location.
Walk through the forest to savor a single dish. Explore Karuizawa with loved ones. That journey becomes a course.
The NoName Festival is not an event to go to a restaurant.
Encounter "restaurants to leave for the future" while exploring the town of Karuizawa. This is a three-day culinary journey.
Approximately 50 restaurants and 50 chefs from across the country will gather.
The NoName Festival will feature approximately 50 restaurants and 50 chefs who have received high acclaim across Japan, including those featured in the Michelin Guide and Gault & Millau.
"Restaurants to leave for the future" from all over Japan, from Tohoku to Kyushu, will gather in Karuizawa to create a special three-day restaurant experience.
Restaurants highly acclaimed across the country will converge on the single stage of Karuizawa, creating a new restaurant experience unique to these three days through encounters that transcend regions.
ALL OVER JAPAN
KARUIZAWA
"Restaurants to leave for the future"
Meet in Karuizawa.
──────────── Approximately 50 restaurants
Approximately 50 chefs
2026.10.16–18
The dishes and philosophies that can normally only be experienced at their respective restaurants will intersect on the single stage of Karuizawa, giving rise to new collaborations. This is a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience, made possible by this festival, where chefs from Karuizawa and chefs from across the country collaborate to create a single dish.
Chefs from Karuizawa and chefs from across the country will create a dish together. This is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration, born from this festival.
These three days are an opportunity to encounter the culture, people, and sentiments of a region that cannot be experienced through a single dish.
Participating chefs and restaurants will be announced sequentially starting with the ticket sales on July 7, 2026 (Tue).
A dish from "restaurants to leave for the future" nationwide heads to Karuizawa.
Approximately 50 restaurants and 50 chefs from across the country, will present dishes polished in their respective regions.
Each of these dishes
will become a new encounter in the town of Karuizawa.
Four Collections to Experience at NoName Festival
The NoName Festival is comprised of four collections. Enjoy an experience that suits you.
Tickets go on sale July 7, limited to 2,500 seats. Three days to encounter "restaurants to leave for the future."
------Limited to 2,500 seats. A three-day culinary experience that can only be encountered in Karuizawa.
Tickets for the NoName Festival will go on sale starting July 7, 2026 (Tue).
"Restaurants to leave for the future" from all over Japan will gather in Karuizawa, and a three-day culinary journey will begin.
Villas surrounded by forests. A once-in-a-lifetime dish with chefs from across the country. Food, wine, tableware, and people encountered while exploring the town.
2,500 seats only.
Please come and discover your "restaurant to leave for the future" in Karuizawa.
Ticket Information
On Sale
2026.7.7(Tue)
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Number of Seats for Sale
Limited to 2,500 seats
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Official Website
noname-fes.jp
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@noname_fes
Future Developments
Leading up to the event, NoName Festival will sequentially announce various projects.
COMING SOON
The NoName Festival is not a project that ends with a three-day event.
We will expand new initiatives to connect chefs, producers, companies, artisans, and people who love restaurants, and to pass on "restaurants to leave for the future" to the future.
Latest information will be sequentially announced on the official website, official Instagram, and PR TIMES.
Organizer's Comment
Yoshiaki Fujimoto, Owner Chef of Difference and Executive Committee Member of NoName Festival
Passing on the value of restaurants to the future.
Restaurants are not just places to serve food.
A restaurant is created by the accumulation of time spent with producers, artisans, and customers.
Through the NoName Festival, we hope to provide an opportunity for as many people as possible to encounter "restaurants to leave for the future" and to connect their value to the future.
Event Information
Event Overview ────────────────
Event Name: NoName Festival KARUIZAWA 2026
Date: October 16 (Fri) - 18 (Sun), 2026
Venue: Various locations within Karuizawa Town, Nagano Prefecture
Participating Restaurants (Planned): Approximately 50 restaurants and 50 chefs nationwide
Number of Seats for Sale: Limited to 2,500 seats
Ticket Sales Start: July 7, 2026 (Tue)
Organizer: NoName Festival Executive Committee
Management: SF Co., Ltd., FUNBASE Co., Ltd., Difference (One Michelin Star)
Official Website: https://noname-fes.jp
Official Instagram: @noname_fes
The NoName Festival was born from this sentiment.
NoName Festival was born from this sentiment.
There are restaurants to leave for the future.
Let's meet in Karuizawa.
FACT BOX
- Source: PR TIMES
- Category: Event
- Organizations: Difference